Washington Post: Driving Points Home on Social Security:

Republican lawmakers, trying to convince a skeptical public about the wisdom of their Social Security proposals, decided yesterday that it was time to roll out a new metaphor.

Their choice: a brown 1935 Ford three-window Coupe, which House GOP leaders ordered driven onto a sidewalk outside the Capitol. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.), Ways and Means Chairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) and a few colleagues stood in front of the antique, built the same year Franklin D. Roosevelt built Social Security, and likened the two.

“I wouldn’t be caught dead in a 1935 automobile,” said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (N.C.), vice chairman of the House Republican Conference’s PR effort on Social Security. “And I want to make sure we have an updated system of Social Security, because that’s America’s investment vehicle.”

I couldn’t agree more, Mr. McHenry, but I don’t think you should stop there!

Back in the late eighteenth century, we wrote with quill pens. They were messy and inconvenient, plus think of all the birds that got plucked! Isn’t that awful? Well, I guess since most of us would prefer not to use a quill to write a letter, we should just toss those dusty old documents written from those bygone days. I mean, come on, they were written so long ago, how could they be relevant today?

UPDATE: For those of you thinking this was about Newsweek, I’m sorry; the title (and content) of the article changed before it went live, but my blog software didn’t update the URL to reflect the change. It should be fixed now.